Call for Participation

2021 Educational Offerings

WHMA/IPC plans to expand the Educational Offerings at EWPTE in support of our mission to lead, educate and connect with companies in the cable and wire harness industry. We invite engineers, researchers, academics, technical experts, and industry leaders to submit technical conference abstracts for the Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo (EWPTE), to be held May 11-13, 2021 at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, WI.

Expert technical presentations are being sought in the following areas:

  • Case Studies on A-620 Success
  • Quality Requirements
  • ESD Impacts on Harness
  • ESD Transmission through Harnesses
  • Hi Frequency Cabling 
  • X-ray Inspection Techniques
  • Crimping Challenges/Dos and Don’ts
  • Crimp Cross Sectioning
  • Wire Harness Troubleshooting
  • Reliability Issues and Failure Analysis
  • Wiring Harness Education and Training
  • Connector Advances
  • Tooling
  • Process Equipment/Productions
  • Calibration
  • Ultrasonics Splicing and Terminating
  • Harness Design Drawings Engineering
  • Overmolding
  • Testing – Electrical/Environmental/Mechanical
  • Electric Vehicles (EV)/Electric Mobility
  • Cleanliness and FOD
  • Wiring Harness Rework

If you are interested in participating in the Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo’s Conference with either a paper or a workshop, please submit an abstract by January 5, 2021 to David Bergman, WHMA Executive Director and IPC Vice President of Standards & Technology at DavidBergman@ipc.org.